Hollywood Kooks

[TBC: A book released in 2005 told us something we already knew. Hollywood is anti-anything that remotely conveys biblical values. On the other hand, that doesn’t mean they are not religious, as this brief extract from a National Review online interview with the author of "Hollywood Interrupted" reveals.]

NRO: How long before Kaballah is out of style in your parts? Will Scientology ever be?

Breitbart: I didn't grow up in a particularly religious house, or neighborhood, so I understand skeptics of organized religion. But the same people who mock the story of Jesus, the ones that speak incredulously of the "Virgin birth" or bemoan the Gospels, are the first people to line up outside L. Ron Hubbard's pulp-science-fiction temple or to buy Madonna-endorsed Kaballah-water and her voodoo bracelets. Twenty years ago it was Shirley MacLaine and her myriad lives, all of which were strangely historical leading roles. Astrology will always be a given here. Hollywood will always be a reliable place to study comically trendy belief systems. In a strange way, I find this a good thing (Lopez, "National Review Online," 1/14/05).